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Research and development

Innovation & Technology is Hydro's internal research and development resource. It stimulates and takes an active part in business development and technical development of products and processes throughout the group, covering:

Improvement of existing products and processes

Technical service and trouble shooting

Enabling technologies, innovation and intellectual property

Prototyping

Hydro offers you a one-stop shop for the prototyping of extruded products. By combining our expert design guidance with prototyping capabilities, we can shorten your development cycle and improve your product design process with an aluminium prototype.

R&D analysis

Hydro offers research and analysis capabilities. We apply advanced computer simulations to discover the best design option, which reduces costs and lead times in the development process.